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Be the Change You Wish to See in the World.Sun, 01 Mar 2015 17:44:01 +0000en-UShourly1wrchttps://feedburner.google.comWhat Children In America Eat At School – Compared To Different Countrieshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wrc/~3/pz-JncOGbtY/
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Children in America have been limited thanks to the First Lady, Michelle Obama and her Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. This has been met with a lot of resistance, mainly from the students themselves!

When we compare American food with global school lunches, we see exactly why this is an issue.

First we will start with American school food:

Now, we move onto global food:

So all in all, what do YOU think should be done? Perhaps all school having and maintaining an organic greenhouse for some of their food? Maybe even a little farm? What do you think? Leave comments below!

The website buried the petition deep within the site so it made it more difficult for people to find. Along with this, they actually froze the amount of signatures the petition was actually registering. This has gone on for 36 hours with Natural News keeping track and documenting it.

Here is a link to the petition, this is a segment of the petition – this is what the White House does not want to address:

No human being should be FORCED to be vaccinated against their will and/or personal/religious beliefs. I petition against making vaccinations of any kind mandatory. This includes forcing children to be vaccinated to attend public schools, activities, and daycare centers. This also includes adults working in the public or private sector.

The website responds to your signature via an email claiming it has registered your signature. The only issue is that the signature isn’t actually counted – it doesn’t show up on the website. It was also clocked at over 100 signatures per hour at one point but once again this wasn’t registered on the site.

According to some polls, most people view vaccines as a choice, not mandatory:

So not only is there some form of manipulation here from some element within the petition system, but the people have spoken – vaccines are a choice.

We’ve all done it. Ripped open a packet of soap in a hotel bathroom only to use it a couple of times before checking out and heading home.

Few would ever wonder what happens to that barely used bar. Fact is, it ends up in landfill. Millions of tonnes of “waste soap” a year is generated by the hotel industry worldwide. But not for much longer, if the Melbourne-based not-for-profit group Soap Aid gets its way.

In the last five months alone Soap Aid has collected more than a tonne of used soap from the city’s hotels. Once this is broken down and made into fresh bars at a purpose built factory in Braeside, the soap is ready to go global.

The first soap shipment of 140,000 bars is due to arrive in Patna in the north-east Indian state of Bihar in March. The bars will be distributed to 2000 disadvantaged families by the local Rotary group.

“It’s the ultimate trash-to-treasure story,” said Soap Aid chief executive Michael Matulick. “We’re repurposing this trash from one part of the world and making it into a reusable commodity that can save lives.”

The reconditioned 100-gram bars carry with them a vital health message – highlighted most recently by the hepatitis A outbreak linked to contaminated frozen berries.

After controversy earlier this month over televisions recording owners and sending the clips to third parties, smartphone owners are now discovering that companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft are also recording voice commands and storing them for up to two years.

Modern televisions are able to change channels, alter volume or even look up information on films via voice command. But controversy erupted on internet forums earlier this month when it was noticed that the terms and conditions for some such services – invariably skipped over due to their length and impenetrable language – allow companies to send recordings of tricky commands to third parties for interpretation.

Often these recordings are not encrypted, so are potentially vulnerable to hackers, and the recordings will capture personal conversations as easily as legitimate commands.

The privacy policy for South Korean manufacturer Samsung states: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party.”

A Chicago man says he was confined for three days – shackled, interrogated and fed only twice, his whereabouts unknown – inside the police “black site” at the epicentre of public outcry over allegations of abuse said to focus on minority citizens.

Four black Chicagoans have now come forward to the Guardian detailing off-the-books ordeals at the facility, including another who describes being detained in “a big cage” with his wrists cuffed to a bench so he couldn’t move.

The Guardian has now interviewed six people about their detention at the Homan Square police warehouse. With striking consistency, all have described extensive detentions without benefit of legal counsel or public notice of where they were.

The first-hand accounts of two white protesters who “disappeared” at the police warehouse in 2012 set off political and civil-rights outrage this week, and multiple protests have now been scheduled by organizers including the Black Lives Matter movement.

Brock Terry, 31, says police took him to Homan Square in 2011, after finding him with five and a half pounds of marijuana, and describes being held for three entire days without public notice, booking or a lawyer.

“I sat in that place for three days, man – with no talking, no calls to nobody,” Terry told the Guardian on Friday. His friends and family could not find him: “They call police stations, I’m not there, I’m not there.”

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Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is leading the first legislative effort to roll back the federal government’s decision to start regulating the Internet as a utility, calling Thursday’s action by the Federal Communications Commission the start of the “Obamanet” and a guarantee of more taxes for Internet consumers.

On Thursday, by a party line 3-2 vote, the FCC approved a plan commonly known as net neutrality, but which critics like Blackburn see as unnecessary government intrusion into the private sector.

“This is the day the ObamaNet was born,” said Blackburn, who is vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “The Internet is not broken. It does not need the FCC’s help and assistance in order to be productive or profitable.”

Coverage and analysis of the FCC’s net neutrality decision has been fairly limited, with both experts and consumers finding the issue very complicated. Blackburn said the impact of this is clear and very significant.

“The FCC will now reclassify broadband services from an information service to a telecommunications service. They will do this under a 1930s-era law, the Telecommunications Act. They will thereby subject the Internet to taxes, regulation, international considerations that are now put on our wire-lined phones. So this is a step backward; it is not a step forward,” said Blackburn, who stresses that the private market was serving consumers just fine.

“It’s a sad day when you see the Federal Communications Commission coming in and preceding your Internet service provider, your ISP, in the governance of the Internet,” she said. “Basically, what you’re going to see is the FCC will now be able to assign priority and value to content because they will be in charge of controlling pricing and fees.”

]]>http://wearechange.org/first-bill-roll-back-fccs-ability-regulate-internet-created/feed/0http://wearechange.org/first-bill-roll-back-fccs-ability-regulate-internet-created/The Debtors Jail System of Ireland Has Been Put to a Halthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wrc/~3/IuimKUzrIjw/
http://wearechange.org/debtors-jail-system-ireland-put-halt/#commentsFri, 27 Feb 2015 18:29:30 +0000http://wearechange.org/?p=33534We Are Change

THE UN HAS expressed concern at the number of people going to prison for failure to pay fines.

In an eight page document released by the international body’s Human Rights Committee yesterday, it said an alternative method needs to be looked at.

This is despite the adoption of Enforcement of Court Orders (amendment) Act 2009 and Fines (payment and recovery) Act 2014 by the State.

The UN committee said: “The State party should fully implement the Fines (payment and recovery) Act 2014 to provide for a community service order as an alternative to imprisonment used as a method of enforcing contractual obligations.”

Welcoming the recommendations the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) called on the Government to act on the committee’s recommendations “without delay”.

Nevada hit the jackpot yesterday in a five-state bid to host Tesla Motors Inc.’s $5 billion battery factory, which could help achieve a mass market for low-emissions electric vehicles by the end of the decade.

Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) offered the automaker $1.25 billion in tax breaks over the next 20 years—more than double Tesla’s requested $500 million incentive package—to build what will become the world’s largest lithium-ion battery plant at a location outside of Reno.

In return, the so-called Gigafactory is expected to generate $100 billion for Nevada’s economy over the next two decades, said Sandoval. It will create 6,500 jobs and add 4 percent to the state’s gross domestic product. The governor will seek approval of the deal in a special legislative session next week.

“Is this agreement good for us?” the governor said yesterday at a press conference in Carson City. “I can answer that question today without hesitation and say emphatically this agreement meets the test by far.”

Elon Musk, Tesla’s intrepid chairman and CEO, said the Gigafactory is important for Tesla’s future and for the future of sustainable transport. “Without it, we cannot produce a mass-market car,” he said.